About ten minutes later.
"Your minister is stopped by my soldiers, your knight is surrounded by my lions and elephants, your king is thirteen squares away, and your clown is stuck in the corner formed by the monkeys and farmers, Now I just need to push the leopard forward..."
As he spoke, the clown picked up the white clown chess piece belonging to Richard, threw it outside the chessboard, and said slowly: "Passerby, you seem to have lost."
"Indeed." Richard nodded after hearing what the clown said. He was not angry or surprised. To be honest, it would only be a problem if he won. After all, he didn't even fully understand the rules, how could he not lose
but…
Richard raised his head, looked at the clown, and said, "Let's play another round."
"Okay." The clown happily accepted, quickly placed the chess pieces, and then moved the chess pieces.
"Pap tap tap tap..."
Chess pieces were picked up and dropped, and conversations sounded from time to time.
“…my tiger caught your chimpanzee, passerby…”
"...Mr. Clown, but my knight will arrive soon..."
"...It doesn't matter, I still have the elephant..."
"...Then I also have a lion..."
"... Passers-by, I would like to remind you that the number of animal chess pieces you have in this area is almost over the limit. It will trigger a wave of small animals and cause heavy losses. This is how you lost last time... "
"...Mr. Clown, thank you for reminding me. In fact, I did this on purpose."
The clown was stunned, raised his head and said, "Huh? On purpose?"
"Yes, deliberately." Richard said, pushing the lion's chess piece forward, "The beast tide ignores the enemy and ourselves, and will block the area. In this way, your superior force will be separated from the main battlefield. My team of humans The chess piece can cut in from here and catch the clown who has only one last life left in you... "
"But my clown can go this way."
"Your animal chess piece, the bison, is blocking the way."
"I can move the bison and put it here."
"Very good, in this case, the number of your animal chess pieces will just cross the line, which will cause a wave of small beasts, and your clown chess pieces will be blocked in the corner. My knight chess pieces will jump here, and then you will... die . Well, you're dead...your own pawn, your own advantage, killed yourself, that's it, Mr. Clown."
As he spoke, Richard picked up the black clown chess piece and placed it outside the chessboard.
"this-"
The clown was stunned.
After being stunned for a long time, the clown finally spoke up and said slowly: "This is really a bit surprising. You actually won a game so quickly, and in this way. Now, after all, we each have a win and a loss." , it’s a tie. If you want to decide the winner, then... there will be another game. What do you think, passerby?" At the end of the sentence, the clown looked at Richard.
Richard did not refuse and made a gesture of invitation.
"Okay." The clown nodded, placed the chess pieces again, put the many black and white chess pieces back to their original positions, and then moved.
This time, the clown looked more serious, and his offensive was much more powerful. He frequently mobilized his chess pieces from the beginning and divided them into several routes to advance towards Richard's chess pieces.
Richard tried hard to shore up his defense, but in the end he was defeated and was breached by the Clown's ingenious operation. Next, the clown began to eat the food crazily without any emotion, leaving no chance for Richard to fight back.
"Your elephant is dead."
"Your tiger is dead."
"Your minister is dead."
"Your clown died for the first time, and he is about to die for the second time."
While the clown was talking, he threw the captured chess pieces outside the chessboard. The chessboard became emptier little by little. Both the clown and Richard's chess pieces were decreasing, but the clown's chess pieces were decreasing significantly slower.
So by the time the clown had half of his black chess pieces left, Richard had very few chess pieces left. When one-third of the clown's chess pieces were left, Richard's chess pieces were only left with a lone clown.
Richard controlled the last clown chess piece to keep moving, and was eventually surrounded.
"It's over. This is a victory that will never be unexpected." The clown said, announcing the result, "Now it's two to one, I won."
Richard shrugged and clapped his hands out of politeness: "Mr. Clown is really awesome."
"Actually, you are also very good." The clown looked over and said in a gentle voice, "It is rare to be able to quickly familiarize yourself with the rules and win in the second set. You are the smartest among smart people. However, ..." At the end of the sentence, the clown paused slightly.
Richard raised his eyebrows, realized the important point, and said, "Mr. Clown seems to want to say something?"
"Well, I have some feelings."
"what is it then?"
After hearing this, the clown looked at it with serious eyes: "What I want to say is that you are obviously very wise, far superior to many people. But the more wise you are, the more humility you should know. After all, a person's wisdom It is limited, it is impossible to know everything, and it is impossible to solve everything by relying on your own wisdom alone.
Just like the clown chess game we played just now, you may have won a game, but still lost by a big score. This is an example. Faced with this situation, I think you need to look at everything around you with a lower attitude. What do you think? "
"I think?" Richard chuckled, "I think I heard Mr. Clown's words somewhere. Well, let me think about it, it seems to be in a library."
"Really." The clown's tone didn't change much. "That might be a coincidence. Of course, it's also possible. This is actually correct. That's why people keep warning you, passers-by."
Richard smiled and said nothing.
The clown noticed something and said: "Why, passerby, do you think that what I said is wrong? I don't agree that people should be humble?"
"Of course not." Richard shook his head. "Humility is a virtue, and learning humility is a kind of progress. I don't object to it. However, I think it has a certain scope of application, and the current situation does not apply."
"Huh? It doesn't apply now?" The clown's tone increased slightly, and he looked at Richard and asked, "Passerby, do you think that winning a game of clown chess without being fully familiar with the rules can prove your You’re smart. The reason why you lost to me in the big score was because the contact time was too short and some negligence, so given you enough time, you can definitely beat me, right?”
"If you really think so, then I have to tell you the truth." The clown's voice became serious, "That is, the reason why you won the second game was because I deliberately lost to you - the situation on the chessboard was completely different. It's all about me. I can win any way if I want, and I can lose any way, and you'll never beat me at clown chess."
Richard smiled and said: "Mr. Clown, actually... I know that you deliberately lost to me in the second set."
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